Transcript Analysing Language in Fiction

Analysing Language in Fiction
Analysing Language
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Learning objectives
To know the key language techniques used
in fiction
To understand how to analyse effects of
these techniques effectively
To be able to analyse effects of language
techniques in a piece of fiction
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Activity 1: reflect and revise
Why is it important to pick out language techniques in a text?
So you can see how a writer has crafted their writing.
Why is it important to
analyse the effects of these
language techniques?
Because the writer
has chosen these
techniques on
purpose to have a
certain effect on the
reader and the text.
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Common language techniques
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Language techniques: definitions
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Language techniques: definitions 2
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Identifying language techniques
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Activity 2: analysing the techniques
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Thinking about language analysis
So what would happen if you analysed the general effects of
each technique?
Read these students’ answers and discuss some of the
ways they could be improved.
‘This simile makes me picture the image in my head and it is
effective.’
‘The personification makes the object sound alive.’
‘The repetition makes me notice the words repeated so they
must be important.’
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Model answers
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Practise
Read the book extract your teacher will give you.
Can you find all the language techniques used?
Choose three or four language techniques to analyse.
Using a PEEE table, really analyse the specific effects of
each technique. Think about: what each could suggest;
how each could affect the reader; and how each could affect
the text.
Remember to aim for your target level!
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Plenary: peer and self assessment
What aspects are good about the analysis?
What aspects need work on and why?
What level do you think it would achieve and why?
Now look back at your work and improve it!
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